Let the music run the room.
AI-directed audio-reactive lighting for DJs, venues, and anyone with music and lights. Your entire room synchronized to the music. Runs on your hardware, your network, your terms. Just a beat and an AI that thinks like a lighting designer.
Conductør reads your audio 30 times per second, splits it into frequency bands, and drives every light in your room independently. Then an AI director watches the show and evolves it in real time.
Multiple audio input sources are supported: PipeWire and PulseAudio (system audio capture), JACK (pro audio routing), and direct line-in. 18 frequency bars are analyzed at 30fps, split into bass, mids, and highs with independent beat detection, automatic gain control, and lull detection per band.
Each frequency band drives different lights with independent color, brightness, movement, and strobe behavior. Superbeat detection fires full-room white flashes when all bands peak at once. Energy buildups converge the palette; drops break it open.
Every 15 seconds, the show's state is sent to an AI that thinks like a professional lighting designer. It adjusts color palettes, strobe intensity, movement speed, and decay rates. The show without the director is accurate. The show with the director evolves.
Professional-grade reactive lighting from a lightweight local engine. No commercial lighting software required.
Independent beat tracking for bass, mids, and highs. Each band triggers its own lights with separate thresholds, decay curves, and color ranges.
When all three frequency bands peak simultaneously, every light in the room fires a synchronized full-white flash. The kind of moment that makes a crowd lose it.
Adapts dynamically to quiet songs vs. loud ones. A whisper-quiet verse and a wall-of-sound drop both get the full dynamic range of your lights.
Sustained low energy triggers ambient swaying mode: slow color drifts, gentle movement, pulled-back strobes. The show breathes with the music.
During buildups, all lights converge toward a single hue to create tension. When the drop hits, convergence breaks and everything splits into independent color chaos.
Art-Net/DMX over Ethernet for professional stage fixtures. Govee LAN API for smart home lights. Both running in the same show, from the same script, in perfect sync.
The AI doesn't control individual lights or individual frames. It controls the feel of the show and lets the reactive engine handle execution. Think of a lighting designer sitting at a console watching the show and making adjustments, except the designer is an AI and the console is a JSON API call.
Average energy per band, beat counts, lull state, whether energy is building toward a drop, and what it decided last time. Every 15 seconds it returns new artistic direction: shift the palette, dial strobes up or down, speed up fixture movement, adjust sensitivity thresholds.
Each decision includes a one-word mood displayed live on the dashboard in big ASCII block letters — HUNTING, DREAMY, CHAOS, PROWLING, SURGING — alongside reasoning explaining why it made the change.
A $200 junk laptop on a couch running 5 DMX stage fixtures and 3 smart home lights, all reacting to music in real time.
Runs entirely on your machine and your local network. You own the hardware, you own the show.
Lightweight runtime with real-time audio analysis
AI director via your choice of provider
DMXking eDMX1 PRO over Ethernet
UDP control for smart home lights
Lossless audio streaming across machines
Built on Kubuntu. Windows coming soon.
Any Art-Net compatible DMX fixture. Moving heads, gobos, spider lights, pars, magic balls, stage lights. If it speaks DMX-512 over Art-Net, Conductør can drive it.
Govee devices via LAN API (UDP). Philips Hue and WLED support planned. Your floor lamp and your gobo projector in the same show.
Runs on any Linux machine with audio output. Tested on a $200 laptop. DMXking eDMX1 PRO for Art-Net conversion. Your gig laptop is powerful enough.
Bring your own API key. Supports Claude and ChatGPT, starting at ~$0.01/hour. Local model support (Ollama) planned for zero ongoing cost.
All plans include lifetime updates. Bring your own API key (Claude or ChatGPT) for the AI director.
Get your feet wet. Perfect for smart home setups.
The full experience. DMX + AI + unlimited fixtures.
For permanent installations and commercial venues.
No lighting experience required. Plug in your fixtures, press play, and let Conductør handle the rest.